Here are questions from the ELEVENTH class of Bible Alive: Jesus Christ, meeting Tuesday nights. ONE MORE CLASS TO GO! To follow you will need to read the book Jesus Christ: Fundamentals in Christology, by Roch Kereszty, o. cist.
ISBN-10: 081890917X
ISBN-13: 978-0818909177
It can be ordered here NOTE: YOU NEED to read the book.
Assignment: Answer Questions for class eleven:
1. How does 1 Peter 1:10-12 interpret christologically the whole of the Old Testament?
2. Show that the Suffering Servant passages, combined with the Son of Man texts, are the key to a Christological interpretation of the Old Testament.
3. Interpret the four Suffering Servant songs in Deutero-Isaiah.
4. Explain:
a. Jesus as the Son of Man.
b. Jesus as the New, Eschatological Israel.
c. Jesus as the High Priest and Perfect Sacrifice.
d. Jesus as Messiah.
e. Jesus as Son of Adam and the Last Adam.
f. Jesus as the final and complete theophany of God (especially the absolute “ego eimi” statements in the Fourth Gospel).
5. Explain and illustrate the differences between the theological perspectives of Palestinain, Jewish-Hellenistic, and Hellenistic-Gentile early Christian communities.
6. What is nonscholarly conservatism? Give examples of adherents. What does it claim about Jesus? Explain it.
7. What is nonscholarly liberalism? Give examples of adherents. What does it claim about Jesus? Explain it.
8. What is scholarly liberalism? Explain it. How did it come about?
9. What is Bultmannian Existentialism? How did it come about? How is it distinct from scholarly liberalism?
10. What is moderate conservatism? What are its two types?
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